The curtain will rise Friday on Lenoir Community College’s 16th annual Broadway and Beyond, and Producer/Director Carolyn Crossland says to expect plenty of surprises.

Crossland, who chairs the college’s music faculty, also will co-host the evening with Rick Vernon, host of Down East Today. The presentation begins at 7:30 p.m. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m., with pre-concert entertainment by Timothy Maddox of the LCC music faculty.

Ciara DiNapoli of Ayden will perform “Breathe” from “In the Heights” and “Don’t Rain on My Parade” from “Funny Girl.” When not on stage, she is a kindergarten teacher at Vanceboro Farm Life Elementary School.

Chris Raines will sing “Poison Ivy” from “Smokey Joe’s Café” and the bass part in a men’s trio, Noteworthy, performing “Unchained Melody.” The Kinston native is a well known member of the musical and stage family of Kinston and extended community.

Jacquline Golebiowski will sing “Nothing” from “A Chorus Line.” The Lenoir County native is the creative dramatics teacher at Hope Middle School in Pitt County.

Other performers include Peggy Overton Vaughan of Greenville performing “A Spoonful of Sugar” and “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” from Mary Poppins; Antuan Hawkins of Kinston performing “Santa Fe” from Rent and baritone in the men’s trio performing “Unchained Melody”; Meme of Jacksonville performing “Could I Leave You?” from Follies; Amanda Stroud of Kinston performing “In My Little Corner” from Cinderella; Clay Raines of Kinston performing “Soliloquy” from Henry and Mudge and tenor in the men’s trio performing “Unchained Melody”; Krissy Boccia of New Bern performing “Maybe This Time” from Cabaret and “There’s No Business Like Show Business” from Annie Get Your Gun; Kinston’s Dr. John Herlong and Nora Parker, with L’Acadmie de Danse, performing “Jitterbug Jive”; and Kinston Dance Academy with Artistic Director Jan McKenrick performing “Sing! Sing! Sing!”

For more information, contact Crossland at 527-6223, ext. 919, or crossland@lenoircc.edu.